Fox News Channel's Kat Timpf shares health update after double mastectomy

Fox News contributor and "Gutfeld!" panelist Kat Timpf on Thursday offered an update on the double mastectomy she has undergone after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The stand-up comic and author had been diagnosed last month, just hours before giving birth to her and her husband’s first child, a son.

Posting a lighthearted Instagram photo of her feet in her hospital bed with the word "Censored" over the toes, she wrote, "Post-op! They’re honestly not much smaller than they were before I got pregnant" — a rueful allusion to the surgical removal of her breasts to prevent the cancer’s spread.

"Can’t wait to have you back," Greg Gutfeld, host of the comedic late-night panel-discussion show on Fox News, commented on the post. "Me too," replied Timpf. Fox Business host Dagen McDowell added, "I love you," to which Timpf responded, "love u more." 

Timpf, 36. had revealed the cancer diagnosis on social media on Feb. 25, writing, "Now, before you worry, my doctor says it’s Stage 0 and is confident that it almost certainly hasn’t spread," Timpf had explained on Instagram. "Or, as I’ve explained to the few people I’ve managed to tell about it so far: Don’t freak out. It’s just, like, a little bit of cancer."
On March 13, posting a photo of herself at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, she wrote jokingly, "Once I recover from childbirth, my mole removal scars heal, I get a double mastectomy, get rid of my cancer, have breast reconstruction surgery & am physically capable of getting back in the gym it’s OVER FOR U [LADIES] ... ."

She previously had addressed fans’ unsolicited medical advice, saying in an Instagram video on Feb. 28 that while she thanked everyone for their support during this "really crazy, difficult, unexpected time," she had been "overwhelmed" by well-meaning but unhelpful opinions.

"Like, ‘My aunt had stage zero and she just needed a lumpectomy’ or ‘I’m a nurse and a double mastectomy for stage zero seems extreme.’ And I just want to say: Trust me, there’s no one for whom that seems more extreme than me ... ," she wrote. "I find it devastating. But I am very grateful to have access to the opinions of many brilliant minds when it comes to breast cancer. ... I’ve talked to a lot of different people, and the focus of all these conversations is: What’s the best thing to do to keep me alive so I’m around for my son for a long time."

She additionally informed them, "Every case of breast cancer is very different. There are a lot of details of mine that I haven’t shared. But I just want to say, trust that I’m making the best decision for me and my family and I’m getting the best medical advice that I could possibly be getting."
Detroit native Timpf and her Wall Street financier husband married in May 2021. The family lives in Manhattan.